Appealing

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Appeal \Ap*peal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Appealed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Appealing}.] [OE. appelen, apelen, to appeal, accuse, OF.
     appeler, fr. L. appellare to approach, address, invoke,
     summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad +
     pellere to drive. See {Pulse}, and cf. {Peal}.]
     1. (Law)


        (a) To make application for the removal of (a cause) from
            an inferior to a superior judge or court for a
            rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or
            illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was
            appealed from an inferior court.
        (b) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a
            private criminal prosecution against for some heinous
            crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.
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     2. To summon; to challenge. [Archaic]
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              Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     3. To invoke. [Obs.] --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Appealing \Ap*peal"ing\, a.
     That appeals; imploring. -- {Ap*peal"ing*ly}, adv. --
     {Ap*peal"ing*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  appealing
       adj 1: able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He
              added an appealing and memorable figure to popular
              American mythology"- Vincent Starrett; "an appealing
              sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to
              retire at fifty is very appealing" [ant: {unappealing}]
       2: (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or
          sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the
          play" [syn: {sympathetic}, {likeable}, {likable}] [ant: {unsympathetic}]
       3: expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened
          look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for
          money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her
          voice" [syn: {imploring}, {importunate}, {pleading}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "appealing":
     achingly sweet, adjuratory, agreeable, agreeable-sounding,
     alluring, appetizing, ariose, arioso, attracting, attractive,
     begging, beguiling, beseeching, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling,
     canorous, cantabile, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic,
     charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, delightful, dulcet,
     enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing,
     entrancing, entreating, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, exciting,
     exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, fine-toned, flirtatious,
     glamorous, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, heart-robbing,
     honeyed, hypnotic, imploring, interesting, intriguing, inviting,
     irresistible, lovely, luxurious, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous,
     mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, mesmeric, mouth-watering,
     music-flowing, music-like, musical, piquant, pleading, pleasant,
     pleasant-sounding, precative, precatory, prepossessing,
     provocative, provoquant, ravishing, rich, seducing, seductive,
     sensuous, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery,
     singable, siren, sirenic, songful, songlike, sonorous,
     spellbinding, spellful, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding,
     taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling,
     titillating, titillative, tunable, tuneful, voluptuous, winning,
     winsome, witching